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Woe-begone

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Woe´-be`gone`
a.1.Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.
So woe-begone was he with pains of love.
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Nastasia Philipovna, observing his woe-begone expression, suddenly burst out laughing.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
I saw her as woe-begone as ever; then, suddenly--oh, you poor little soul, and has it really been as bad as that!
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
A man of soft civilization, sitting at a desk, would have grown lean and woe-begone on the fare that kept Kama and Daylight at the top-notch of physical efficiency.
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